Actually, we used to have a few laws that we're not doing all that well without. Like a law limiting how many media outlets one entity could own.
No law ever gets repealed--except the ones that actually protect the common people.

Clearly learning from the past, and maintaining a historic record so our posterity can do the same, is a losing proposition too. Not to mention honoring people who rose above the barbaric mores of their primitive times, and made decisions when there was no good choice to make.
I'm surprised the human race has lasted as long as it has.

Lawsuit claims Poland Spring a ‘colossal fraud,’ selling groundwater
https://bangordailynews.com/2017/08/17/business/lawsuit-claims-poland-spring-a-colossal-fraud-selling-groundwater/
By Jake Bleiberg, BDN Staff
Posted Aug. 17, 2017, at 1:11 p.m.
Last modified Aug. 17, 2017, at 7:20 p.m.
PORTLAND, Maine — A group of bottled water drinkers has brought a class action lawsuit against the company behind Poland Spring, alleging that the Maine business has long deceived consumers by mislabeling common groundwater.

The basic problem with this whole thing is that everyone's seeing it as they want to see it. For instance, libertarians think the NAZIs respect Lee or Jefferson for the same reasons we do; they don't. Take a poll; I'll bet the farm that these same people love FDR, or T. Roosevelt, or other, equally repugnant statists; it's not about liberty for them, it really is about race. They actually are what the MSM accuses them of being. That was, after all, the whole impetus for the modern alt-right: "you call us racists, fine we'lll be racists." And they are.
So...why do we (libertarians) care (about them)?
Very apt, except I might have made Trump a bellows, with the MIC, Wall Street, the DNC, etc, working him.

Our Hypocritical, Bullying, Social Justice Bolsheviks
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/hypocritical-bullying-social-justice-bolsheviks/
Thomas DiLorenzo
Among the many crusades of America’s Social Justice Bolsheviks over the past several years has been one supposedly against bullying. Billions of tax dollars have been spent to create a whole new anti-bullying bureaucracy.
At the same time, America’s Social Justice Bolsheviks are the world’s biggest bullies!

A former socialist is now a socialist?
...shocker
People sympathetic to the NAZIs are looking for explanations in conspiracy, but the ideology says it all.
Mussolini was a Lenin-type proletarian socialist before he decided that nationalism was a more convenient venue for advancing the revolution.
...peas in a pod these.

This, if possible, and, (ultimately to the same end)...
Gather information about who in the community is potentially useful.
Names, contact information, personal preferences, jobs, habits, hobbies, etc.
...anything one might need to know to in future enlist them in some useful service.

If security considerations didn't demand that they perform some military task during peacetime (e.g. training), they'd be best released.
By not releasing them, you're misallocating resources: i.e. from whatever productive industries they'd enter, to nonsensical state road building.
The armies were mostly employed in Keynesian type activities, cyclically digging and filling ditches, etc, to keep them too busy for politics.

So the ACLU is bad because it's fair, and as blind as true justice to everything but the facts.
The Left is eating its own. Is the Right smart enough to affiliate with the Left's quality castoffs?
If we let Left and Right make us hesitate to embrace anything which values truth and substance over style and fads, we lose, and the Deep State and their useful idiots win. Or rather, the Deep State wins, and their useful idiots don't go to the gulag until after we do.
I've seen libertarians turn their noses up at people and groups of real quality before, because they're associated with The Left. Bill Moyer is one, and the ACLU itself is another. Well, folks, the $#!+ is getting real, and we had better get over that foolishness real damned fast.

I have no reason to doubt it, it's in line with other quotes of his.
“And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race.”
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races.”
Lincoln Douglas debates 1858